Nuts & Bolts: Workforce Safety and Insurance announced that North Dakota employers can now purchase a workers’ compensation policy to cover their employees who work temporarily outside the state. In partnership with the Michigan-based Accident Fund Insurance Company of America, …
Delaware Valley Underwriting Agency, Inc. (DVUA) is expanding into the New England area with the purchase of the assets of Zimmerman Specialty Insurance Brokerage, Inc. of Natick, Mass. by its parent, PIC Holdings. Zimmerman Specialty is an excess and surplus …
West Virginia’s Workers’ Compensation Commission recently filed injunctions against two state employers whose accounts with the Commission are reportedly in default. The injunctions were filed in Kanawha County Circuit Court against: * Andrews Contracting & Hauling Inc., a Mercer County …
A West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission fraud and abuse investigator was to be honored on Friday for her work by the U.S. Department of Justice. Lisa Prater, manager of the Fraud & Abuse Investigations Unit in the Commission’s Office of …
Federal and state funds to assist West Virginians with flood recovery efforts have reached $10.5 million, state and federal recovery officials said this week. President Bush’s Sept. 20 Hurricane Ivan disaster declaration for West Virginia now includes 22 counties. Federal …
Chrystin McHugh has been named marketing communications specialist in the marketing department at Delaware Valley Underwriting Agency (DVUA), announced Edward Levy, senior vice president. McHugh joins DVUA with more than four years of corporate communication/marketing experience in the health care …
If “you get what you pay for” described the situation for those seeking insurance coverage for oil and gas risks in 2003, “steady as she goes” may more closely characterize the market in 2004, with “the world is flat” being …
National and state insurance industry associations reacted speedily as hurricanes Charley, Ivan, Frances and Jeanne tore through the southeast — all four landing in Florida and continuing on to devastate states as far north as Pennsylva-nia and West Virginia. As …
Flood victims in disaster-declared counties reportedly do not need to be concerned that disasters in other states will mean a reduction in funds available for West Virginia. Applications filed for assistance in West Virginia will be evaluated based on their …
The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (The Big “I”) is applauding continuing efforts by state policymakers and federal courts to eliminate countersignature laws. The Big “I” has pursued the elimination of countersignature laws ever since its National Board …
